Retail Success Coach
Location: CA, ON, Toronto
Department: Customer Success
Employment type: Full-time
Required experience: Mid-Senior level
Industry: Retail
Function: Customer Service

Company profile:
Vend is looking for some awesome new talent to come join us. You'll be working in an awesome team doing awesome things, and generally being awesome.Learn about us on our blog, or meet the team on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedInAwesome SpaceOur brand new Auckland office space is located on Nuffield Street in Newmarket, surrounded by our customers and the industry we love. It is huge, open, and shiny new with great meeting room spaces, casual working environments and plenty of space to host awesome events. We don't do cubicles, just plenty of space, whiteboards and meetings rooms. We also have a great cafe/retail space with our very own Front of House Manager taking care of our visitors and fellow Venders. Like Auckland our Melbourne office is surrounded by retail. It's a great wee space equipped with tiny houses and some awesome cardboard cutout animals.Our Toronto office is located right in the heart of downtown retail district. Like Melbourne and Auckland there's a great vibe with great coffee, boutique stores and some of the greatest restaurants in the city. Our SoMa office in San Francisco is located in the middle of the SF tech scene, just a (Biz) stone's throw from Twitter.The EnvironmentWe want you to be at the top of your game. You can wear whatever clothing you like, start work late in the morning, take breaks whenever you want and generally work the way you want to work. Who we're looking forVend is looking for people to push the boundaries. We are a hard working professional team with a wicked sense of humour, and we are looking for people who thrive in a collaborative open environment. We want passionate, hard working, talented individuals that want to lead in their field.

Job description:
Just in case this is the first time you’ve visited our website Vend is an award winning web based point of sale software for retail. We’re chucking out crusty old cash registers and replacing them with iPads, touch screens and beautiful software, all of this to make life easier for our retailers.  Vend is a fast-growing tech start-up, since launching in 2010 we’ve now got 10,000+ customers and 650 partners all over the world with more than 170 employees shared between our Auckland, Melbourne, Toronto, Berlin, London &amp; San Francisco offices. The Retail Success Coach is a brand spanking new role and one that we're super excited about. With this role we're able to offer an even greater experience to our customers and this is what it's all about for us. A common perception about changing POS solutions is that it's insanely hard. With Vend that doesn't need to be the case and we're here to support our customers through their transition onto our great retail platform. This role is focused on the education component of not just the on-boarding but the ongoing use of Vend and how we can help make our customers businesses even more successful. Not only is this role focused on the tactics associated with successful implementations and on-boarding there's also a strategic component and at Vend we make our strategic decisions based on data. The successful person in this role will be someone who understands how to use our data to develop strategies around improving our customer on-boarding and experience. Education plays a huge part in this role so the successful person will be someone with experience developing online training material and planning training webinars. Vend is constantly evolving so you'll need to be good at keeping up with a changing product and developing a strategy around keeping our customers informed.This is a great opportunity for someone who loves retail, has a natural affinity with technology and education and wants to step up into a new and exciting challenge with a global software company revolutionising retail. 

Requirements:
The ideal person to join as our first Retail Success Coach is someone who;Has worked as a Store or an Assistant Store Manager in a fast paced retail environment at some pointIs a total data monkey and is as curious as a really curious thingKnows how to create easy to follow and effective training materialIs absolutely, positively focused on solutions and has a fuck yeah attitude towards challengesLoves retail and loves people even moreHas trained staff and in a retail environment was always the go to person that people come to for help with the POS systemsCan translate technical speak into plain english that anyone can understand and can do so without alienating our customersWon't tag out of a project that's not completedWants to help our customers be better, smarter and more successful

Benefits:
You can expect from us.A competitive salary  The chance to work with a group of amazing peopleHaving the opportunity to be part of the next big kiwi software success storyAn open culture where we openly share our results and where your input is valuedFun at work!  However you might like to have fun at work, you can pretty much do that at VendWork-life balance.  We know you have a life outside of work.  At Vend you can have a life inside work tooUtilise all your talents.  Not just the ones written in your job descriptionWe welcome all of you at work.  We don’t want you to leave your personality at the door